Soviet assault on Maoka

Soviet assault on Maoka
Part of the Invasion of South Sakhalin in the Soviet–Japanese War of World War II
Map of the Invasion of South Sakhalin, with Maoka in the bottom left
Date 19–22 August 1945 Location Maoka, South Sakhalin Result Soviet victory
Belligerents
Soviet Union	Japan
Commanders and leaders
M.A. Purkayev	Kiichiro Higuchi
Strength
3,400 men	2 battalions
Casualties and losses
77 killed[1]	300 killed 600 captured[1]
600–1,000 civilians killed

The Soviet assault on Maoka (Maoka Landing, Russian: Десант в порт Маока) was carried out at the port of Maoka (now Kholmsk), Southern Sakhalin during August 19-22, 1945, by the forces of the Soviet Northern Pacific Flotilla of the Pacific Fleet during the South Sakhalin Offensive of the Soviet–Japanese War at the end of World War II. It was the second amphibious assault on South Sakhalin, after the Soviet assault on Toro [ru] (now Shakhtyorsk) on August 16.^[2]